Can someone please point me to the heavy armour info when targeting heavy tanks?
do you need a 6 to Hit frontal armour, 5,6,
to Hit side armour
4,5,6 for rear armour on a heavy armoured tank?
cheers John

Heavy Armour:
Heavy armour indicates that an AFV has good all-round protection. When rolling to penetrate its armour in Step Three of section 12.1, its opponent will treat its side armour as frontal armour, needing 5 or 6 to penetrate. Against its rear armour they will require 4 to 6 to penetrate as opposed to the normal 3 to 6 for rear armour. In simple terms, side armour is treated as frontal armour; rear armour is treated as side armour.

I guess it is all relative to the opposition’s anti tank capability. It’s a bit like the support tables, the support cost of an AFV really only matters relative to the support cost of its likely opponent.

I don't think those are the tanks that are having the "heavy armour" label attached - one would hardly describe the Char B1 bis as "flimsy"!

They aren't - my point is, if the term 'Heavy Armour' refers to tanks with side armour as effective as front armour, the actual thickness of the armour is not a factor - so the very thinnest armoured tanks should have the 'Heavy Armour' trait.